Here's my Top 10 Childhood Toys:
- Matchbox cars and trucks. Hands down my most-played-with childhood toy. I still have the carrying case with many of the original vehicles. If only I had the little cardboard box they were in when you bought them. They would be worth much more. As a big kid, I've continued with my collection and it numbers well over 300.
- Tinkertoy Construction Set. I spent hours creating one structure after another. Patterned after Ferris Wheel construction, Tinkertoys were originally made of wooden dowels and discs.
- Spiro-Graph. A birthday gift from an uncle, the Spiro-Graph was a series of plastic geared shapes with holes for colored ink pens. You used the pen to push the shapes along the gears to create all kinds of patterns.
- Steam Engine. An actual table-top steam engine. You put water in the boiler and then ignited a fuel disc to heat the water to the boiling point. Once you had steam, you could open a valve to make it run. There were add on pieces that connected with drive belts, just like life-size versions.
- Ventriloquist Dummy. His name was Willie Talk. Maybe if I had stuck with it, I would have been another Jeff Dunham.
- Lionel Train Set. Every kids needs a train set. I was lucky the house where we lived had a large basement, so I had my train set up on a 4 x 8 ft. table.
- Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots. I never owned the Robots myself, but my cousin did. We always played with the toy that allowed us to "Knock your Block Off."
- Drawing pads. Not much of a toy, but I think I went through a pad a week. I used to like drawing house plans. Yeah, I was a junior architect! Maybe that's why I studied graphic arts in college.
- Snap-together Road set. I don't know what else to call this, and it seems like a lame toy, but I used to build roads for my Matchbox cars all over the living room.
- My Bike. Of course, in the summer I used to ride my bike. My favorite was had a banana seat, chopper handle bars and a sissybar on the back.
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